2019 – Page 68 – News Views

Update: Shooter identified as 36 year-old Seth Ator

09/01/2019 Ms. G 109

Authorities have identified the shooter in yesterday’s mass shooting in Odessa, Texas as thirty-six year-old Seth Ator. MORE

Trump tweets inaccurate information on Hurricane Dorian; NWS issued a correction

09/01/2019 Ms. G 58

Trump took to Twitter earlier today warning people to be careful because Dorian is now a Category 5 hurricane. No one knows exactly the path the hurricane will take but for some reason, Trump thinks MORE

Wing Nut Watch: Boston’s Straight Pride Parade

09/01/2019 Ms. G 39

A “Straight Pride” parade in downtown Boston attracted counter-protesters — and a heavy police presence — resulting in almost three dozen arrests.A large number of counterprotesters taunted marchers Saturday and chanted “Alt right, get off MORE

UPDATE: Texas’ second mass shooting in one month

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Update to a previous News Views article: Texas troopers pulled a gold sedan over between Midland and Odessa, Texas. The driver fired shots at the troopers hitting one of them; he then sped off and MORE

Alabama church posts sign: ‘A black vote for Trump is mental illness’

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A pastor in Birmingham Alabama posted on the church’s sign that “A black vote for Trump is mental illness”, on the other side of the sign he posted: “A white vote for Trump is pure MORE

Column: O.J. Simpson should not be celebrated on the USC campus

09/01/2019 Rachel Kennedy 61

As the USC Trojans walked through the peristyle entrance of the newly remodeled Coliseum on Saturday, they followed Clay Helton down the concrete steps toward the field, passing six oversized USC jerseys displayed on each MORE

Gun-like hand gesture deemed crime by a Pennsylvania Superior court

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‘Gun-like hand gesture’ deemed crime by Pennsylvania court: https://t.co/Geg8hP8LmS pic.twitter.com/cJ10Q3jzrm — WGAL (@WGAL) August 29, 2019 A Lancaster County P.A. man who imitated shooting a pistol at his neighbor was found to have committed a MORE

Texas police say two gunman at large after shooting at Odessa Home Depot

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Police in Midland, Texas said on Saturday two gunmen were at large after a reported shooting at a branch of the Home Depot hardware store in Odessa. In a first post on its Facebook page on Saturday afternoon, the MORE

Back in Black: 2020 BMW X6 in Vantablack

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CNET’s Roadshow reports that the third-generation BMW X6 release at the Frankfurt Motor Show may be a little hard to see. The car is spray-coated in Vantablack, a substance that holds the world record as MORE

Yiddish, With Faces This Time

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In support of the use of more colorful speech, here’s a handy guide to useful terms from one of America’s favorite dialects. To make it easy to remember, each word is keyed to a representative public figure. You can even make up your own! MORE

Last Call: Burn this Bitch Down

08/31/2019 Ms. G 67

Besides celebrating when life begins, the day we take our first breath, we all also mourn the loss of Disqus’ Channel system; it’s what brought us here, where we are today. MORE

Roman Polanski film premieres at Venice amid controversy

08/31/2019 Rachel Kennedy 39

Argentine director Lucrezia Martel, who is chairing the festival’s jury, said she did not want to “congratulate” the director and that his participation in the festival made her “uncomfortable”. J’Accuse (An Officer and a Spy) stars MORE

Is Today the Day the Killing Starts in Hong Kong?

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Things are getting scary in Hong Kong. The Really Serious Protesters have barricaded Hennessey Road in Wanchai with flaming trashcans and tires, and are massed behind the fires ready for…what? The PLA has shifted troops MORE

Gronkowski: Football was bringing me down

08/31/2019 Rachel Kennedy 19

Former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski became emotional Tuesday morning when describing his decision to retire from the NFL in March. “I want to be clear to my fans. I needed to recover. I was MORE

Trump defends tweeting sensitive photo of Iran launch site

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In a tweet that appeared an attempt to troll the Iranians, Trump included a snapshot of a sensitive or even classified photo of the launch site that was taken by US intelligence assets. MORE

Over 100,000 Votes Missing in Georgia, Mostly from Democrats and Black Folks

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Another alarming report of voting machine cuckholdery related to Brian Kemp’s home district per 2018’s Georgia Governor’s race. MORE

Trump Tweets National Intelligence Data Normally Not Shared with Even Allies

08/31/2019 Community 39

President Donald Trump claimed Friday that the US had nothing to do with the explosion of an Iranian rocket Thursday, tweeting a photo of such high resolution that it prompted questions about whether the President had publicly released classified imagery. MORE